Censorship? That’s MY Job

I do believe I have found a new blogging friend to follow! Loving your blog and it’s always awesome to hear intelligent people that believe other intelligent life is out there. Hmm, really, there are many of us that can think for ourselves and make the right decision.

I am raising my kids to be incredible people that have free will and make good choices. That is my right, to PARENT my children as I see fit and to watch over them. I guess those that don’t have control of their kids are looking for corporate America to do the parenting for them. lmao

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I love that link from Smart Bitches/Trashy books. (One of the sites I love to read btw)

Couldn’t agree with you more.

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If all the people joining AmazonFail actually bought LGBT books, the world would indeed be a very different place.

Thank you for covering this!

Umm, don’t you think all the mainstream sites do this already? Why do you think erotica doesn’t come up at the very top of EVERY Google search? It’s because Goggle is making sure they don’t.

Everyone needs to get over themselves on this one… its non-news.

Those sort of restrictions never do what the creators intended. You’d think people would learn. We all know how prohibition turned out.

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Hey there–

I’m another mother who’s feeling exactly the same way. Part of my job as a parent, IMHO, is to let them see the world and to help them deal with certain things when it’s appropriate for them to.

If either/both of my kids aren’t heterosexual, the last thing I want is for them to think there’s something weird or wrong with them because they haven’t been able to know about non-het people thanks to those books and issues being classed as “adult.”

I still can’t get over Amazon doing this. (And I HATE the idea that “adult” automatically means “sex” to people. As an adult who’s grown up a bit, I can say that I have interests and hobbies which don’t always revolve around sex. As a parent, “erotica” or “p0rn” means “sex,” and “adult” means, “stuff that my kids aren’t interested in or capable of understanding yet.” While “sex” falls into that category, so too do political thrillers, complex books about chaos theory, self-help books and history documentaries.

(And wrt Playboy, I’d honestly rather my sons– when they’re older and curious about that sort of deal– to be reading THAT than plenty of the “less hardcore” “men’s” mags out there which, in text, suggest some pretty repulsive things about women and gender relations. At least Playboy has some class.)

You know, we’re probably the “odd men out” on this topic. I also agree with you….I believe my job as a parent is to educate them and teach them how to make good choices. I believe in free will and letting them make good decisions for themselves. That’s not to say I’m gonna run out and get my boys a Penthouse mag or anything. But I’m sure they’ll be curious and if I happen to find one in their room someday, I’ll just chalk it up to natural curiosity and open the topic for discussion with them. I’m really hoping, if I do my job right, that my kids will come to me and discuss stuff like this with me, openly and honestly.

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I wasn’t even aware they’d made that change. I’m not sure I understand who they think they’re protecting, or what they believe they’re protecting them from. It’s ridiculous. With all the sleazy stuff you can readily access on the internet, they’re going to hide these particular books from consumers because…

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I don’t worry about what my kids read. If they are reading I’m happy. I haven’t found my son’s stash of porn but I’m sure he has one. Better he’s looking at porn (and doing what boys and men do when looking at porn) then doing it with his girlfriend.

I don’t understand these companies like Amazon and Google, they do it too, who like to tell me what I can and cannot read, watch and listen to. I’m frankly surprised that Amazon would do this as erotica was one of the first genres that jumped on the Amazon band wagon back in the mid 90′s. Of course Barnes and Noble has been telling us what we can read for ages.

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You might like this column by Maureen Dowd on Google: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/opinion/15dowd.html?_r=1

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If you haven’t found your boys Playboy stash you are not looking hard enough. Kind of joking there, never found Playboys but I did find condoms. I officially don’t approve of premarital sex but I stuck them in the mail to him because my name isn’t Stupid.

I am on the prowl mostly for illegal substances. I’ll admit it’s a lot of work when the kids room is a mess, I think I’ll train my freeloading dog to sniff it out instead. While I’m at it I wonder if I could train that dog to keep track of the level of Vodka in the bottle?

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Amazon’s new deal seems a bit silly to me. I’m more worried about the Viagra and Cialis commercials….I don’t feel like having explain what a 4 hour erection is to my 7 year old niece.